To my loving parents and my sweetheart, Ifeoma, for their invaluable encouragement and prayers iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I will like to express my utmost gratitude to my advisor, Prof. Ye (Geoffrey) Li. He has been a tremendous advisor in every sense of the word, especially in regards to my studies and research work. He has guided me through the hard-fought years of developing the essential skills o...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to determine whether irradiation could serve as a suitable phytosanitary treatment alternative to methyl bromide (MB) fumigation for blueberries and sweet cherry and also to determine the effect of phytosanitary irradiation treatment on survival of Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes on these fruit. 'Bluecrop' blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum) ...

In recent years, using easy, quality-certified, and accurate glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c)measurements hasbecomeagloballyaccepted, if not recommended part of our everyday practical armamentarium in diagnosing diabetes mellitus (DM), although controversy continues over its precise position in the diagnostic algorithm. On the other hand, the very high and, in fact, increasing number of both diagno...

We like to think that our genome is rocksolid, that it is dependable, there for us when we need it. The truth is far from that. By fits and starts, our species’ collective genome is undulating, reshaping itself with eruptions of genomic lava and clashes of sequence tectonics, at once both marvelous and unsettling. We are unaware of this tumult within us until we are confronted with disease in o...

muslim theologians in the holy quran and the practice of what he describes as an alternative or used god's name, name (plural nouns) is called god. whether the names and attributes of god referred to in the qur'an, the sunnah and the consensus is not seized or the names of allah, is bound to be mentioned in the sources,among the important difference scholars of the islamic world, espe...